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Post subject: Create feedback with Mustang III V2 ...is this possible ?
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:24 pm
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In 1989 i had a Marshall 30 watts (which one ?) with which it was easy to do feedback even in low volume, so now i have the Mustang III V2 with no idea how to make feedback even in high volume ... but i must say that i do not want to play in high volume ...
I need feedback but how to do that ?
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Post subject: Re: Create feedback with Mustang III V2 ...is this possible
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:26 pm
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Feedback can mean lots of things. Can you explain more specifically what exactly you're trying to achieve?

Do you mean the screechy howl you get when the sound from the amp speaker makes the guitar strings vibrate, which in turn generates more sound through the amp speaker, etc? (That's what is usually meant by the term "feedback" in the context of guitar amps). If so, then this is an interplay of both the amp and guitar, and is something that equipment designers over the years have tried to reduce/prevent (because almost all the time, people don't want that sort of feedback). So it wouldn't surprise me at all that it's harder to create that sort of feedback with current equipment compared to stuff from 20 or 30 years ago. Although to confirm, I can get my Mustang and guitar (GLP) to feedback without too much effort, even at low volume, so it certainly still does it. As an example, use the "Metal 2000" amp model, turn the gain up high, and put the guitar right in front of the amp.

I wonder if instead you mean you're trying to create a distortion/overdrive sound, or a pinch-harmonic sound, etc?


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Post subject: Re: Create feedback with Mustang III V2 ...is this possible
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:31 am
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Hi Scott ...
BY feedback i mean when you reach the ampli with the guitar (as you said ; front of it) which make distorsion feedback ...a dirty sustain !
I know it depend of a lot of thing : pickups ect ...

Maybe i need to find an old guitar amp


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Post subject: Re: Create feedback with Mustang III V2 ...is this possible
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 1:05 pm
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Segomil wrote:
Hi Scott ...
BY feedback i mean when you reach the ampli with the guitar (as you said ; front of it) which make distorsion feedback ...a dirty sustain !
I know it depend of a lot of thing : pickups ect ...

Maybe i need to find an old guitar amp


thank you !


I can't imagine not being able to get feedback. It's never been an issue for myself or out other guitarist both on Mustangs, sometimes when we don't even want it. And we never have the master volume on our amps above 3 or 3 1/2.

I doubt it's the guitar as I can get feedback on any of my guitars (Les Paul, Strat, ES335, Gretsch 5420), so I suspect it's either not having enough gain on your preset or the location of the amp. In our case we have our amps on amp stands that face them slightly upward. All I have to do is turn slightly toward the amp within 2 or 3 feet and I can get feedback with the right kind of settings. If you're using a very clean setting it would be much harder. It could also be technique. You have to be sustaining whatever chord or string you're playing when trying to get feedback to produce the harmonic. If there's no sound being played or produced from the guitar there's nothing to feedback.

Feedback has not much at all to do with the amp. It has much more to do with your pickups sending a signal and the volume of sound coming back and feeding into them from from the speaker. That's the definition of feedback.

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Post subject: Re: Create feedback with Mustang III V2 ...is this possible
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 3:28 pm
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which make distortion feedback ...a dirty sustain !

OK, if that's really what you want, have you tried my suggestion above (Metal 2000 amp, high gain, low volume, guitar right in front of amp). That easily gives feedback - although that's just one example, lots of settings will do it on the Mustang, so no you don't "need to find an old guitar amp."


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Post subject: Re: Create feedback with Mustang III V2 ...is this possible
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 3:57 pm
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which make distortion feedback ...a dirty sustain !

OK, if that's really what you want, have you tried my suggestion above (Metal 2000 amp, high gain, low volume, guitar right in front of amp). That easily gives feedback - although that's just one example, lots of settings will do it on the Mustang, so no you don't "need to find an old guitar amp."


Ditto.

One day right after I got my MIII I powered it on and did not notice the master vol was all the way up. When I started to walk away I bumped my guitar and... feed back city.

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